'Lok Sabha' - 1000 News Result(s)

As the proceedings started this morning in Lok Sabha, where the no-confidence notice by the Telugu Desam Party was to come up for admission, members of Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK rushed to the Well of the House demanding a resolution of the Cauvery water issue. Telangana's TRS followed with a set of demands. Within minutes, the House was adjourned....

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party, which broke away from the Narendra Modi-led NDA alliance, will pitch for a no-confidence motion against the government in Lok Sabha today over the demand for special status for Andhra Pradesh.

After its unexpected defeat in the recent Lok Sabha bypolls in Gorakhpur and Phulpur, the ruling BJP might be in for fresh trouble in this week's Rajya Sabha polls on 10 seats from Uttar Pradesh, with a sulking ally keeping its cards close to its chest.

The no-confidence motions against the government, pitched by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party and its arch-rival YSR Congress, were not taken up as Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day following uproar. As lawmakers protested and booed, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said she could not bring the motion unless there was o...

The BJP's defeat in the recent Lok Sabha by-elections in Gorakhpur and Phulpur cannot be termed a "referendum" on the policies and programmes of the party's governments at the Centre or in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said today.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh termed Arvind Kejriwal's apology to Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia for accusing him of being involved in drugs trade, an attempt to reduce the burden of defamation cases against him before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Maharashtra BJP chief Raosaheb Danve today said the Shiv Sena would remain with its oldest ally even though its president Uddhav Thackeray has announced that the party will fight upcoming Lok Sabha and state assembly polls alone.

The proceedings in Parliament were washed out for the second consecutive weeks today due to protests by opposition parties, which also led to the failure of the Lok Sabha to take up notices for no-confidence motion against the NDA government moved by parties from Andhra Pradesh.

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's tally may drop by 100-110 seats in the next Lok Sabha polls in 2019, if the current trends and the results of the recent bypolls are an indicator, its ally Shiv Sena said in a gloomy prediction on Friday.

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu today withdrew support from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's coalition government over special status and financial assistance to his state. The TDP is set to bring a no-confidence separately against the Centre. The TDP has 16 members in the Lok Sabha, but its ...

'Lok Sabha' - 1000 News Result(s)

As the proceedings started this morning in Lok Sabha, where the no-confidence notice by the Telugu Desam Party was to come up for admission, members of Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK rushed to the Well of the House demanding a resolution of the Cauvery water issue. Telangana's TRS followed with a set of demands. Within minutes, the House was adjourned....

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party, which broke away from the Narendra Modi-led NDA alliance, will pitch for a no-confidence motion against the government in Lok Sabha today over the demand for special status for Andhra Pradesh.

After its unexpected defeat in the recent Lok Sabha bypolls in Gorakhpur and Phulpur, the ruling BJP might be in for fresh trouble in this week's Rajya Sabha polls on 10 seats from Uttar Pradesh, with a sulking ally keeping its cards close to its chest.

The no-confidence motions against the government, pitched by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party and its arch-rival YSR Congress, were not taken up as Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day following uproar. As lawmakers protested and booed, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said she could not bring the motion unless there was o...

The BJP's defeat in the recent Lok Sabha by-elections in Gorakhpur and Phulpur cannot be termed a "referendum" on the policies and programmes of the party's governments at the Centre or in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said today.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh termed Arvind Kejriwal's apology to Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia for accusing him of being involved in drugs trade, an attempt to reduce the burden of defamation cases against him before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Maharashtra BJP chief Raosaheb Danve today said the Shiv Sena would remain with its oldest ally even though its president Uddhav Thackeray has announced that the party will fight upcoming Lok Sabha and state assembly polls alone.

The proceedings in Parliament were washed out for the second consecutive weeks today due to protests by opposition parties, which also led to the failure of the Lok Sabha to take up notices for no-confidence motion against the NDA government moved by parties from Andhra Pradesh.

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's tally may drop by 100-110 seats in the next Lok Sabha polls in 2019, if the current trends and the results of the recent bypolls are an indicator, its ally Shiv Sena said in a gloomy prediction on Friday.

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu today withdrew support from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's coalition government over special status and financial assistance to his state. The TDP is set to bring a no-confidence separately against the Centre. The TDP has 16 members in the Lok Sabha, but its ...

N Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party (TDP) walked out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's coalition on Friday over financial support for Andhra Pradesh, delivering a huge blow to the BJP ahead of the 2019 national election.

The Congress is expected to state its position on alliances for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and unveil a vision document at its plenary beginning here on Friday with party chief Rahul Gandhi keen on making the three-day event "worker-centric and not leader-centric".

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday cancelled his scheduled visit to Gonda because of "unavoidable reasons" and sent his deputy Dinesh Sharma in his place. The cancellation was after BJP's defeat in the Lok Sabha by-elections in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur and Phulpur constituencies.

Political parties have been exempted from scrutiny regrading funds they may have received from abroad over the last 42 years. A controversial bill that made this official was one of the 218 amendments passed on Tuesday by the Lok Sabha without debate. The new rule is among a series of measures, that critics say, will make the sources of political f...

Lok Sabha proceedings were paralysed for the ninth consecutive day today as several parties, including NDA constituent TDP, continued their noisy protests over various issues, including the PNB scam and special status for Andhra Pradesh.

Since the BJP came to power in 2014 general elections with a massive mandate - 282 of Lok Sabha's 543 seats -- the party has lost six seats in subsequent by-elections. The last of these defeats came yesterday, when the party lost the prestigious Gorakhpur and Phulpur seats of Uttar Pradesh - vacated in 2017 by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and hi...

The Uttar Pradesh unit chief of the Samajwadi Party (SP), Naresh Uttam, has written to the Election Commission (EC), alleging large-scale irregularities in the ongoing counting of votes for the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat.

Gorakhpur, the Uttar Pradesh parliament seat that Yogi Adityanath represented as a BJP lawmaker for two decades before vacating it last year to take over as Chief Minister, has chosen the Samajwadi Party this time. The Samajwadi Party, backed in a rare arrangement by Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party, has also won the by-election in Phulpur, the seat ...

The most keenly-watched political experiment ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election has worked for the opposition. "It is a lesson for us", Yogi Adityanath said this evening, adding, "we underestimated the impact of the BSP-SP alliance."

The government today got the Budget for fiscal year beginning April 1 passed in Lok Sabha without discussion by applying the guillotine process as the opposition paralysed the functioning for the eighth day.